1999 Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce(GBDe) Due to submit proposals for legal arrangements for electronic commerce representing the interest of industries during the first GBDe convention held on 13 September 1999 in Paris, and these will be submitted to the government of each country. The following nine themes will be covered: (1) authentication and security, (2) consumer credibility, (3) contents/business communication, (4) inter-operability of information infrastructure and governance, (5) intellectual property, (6) control, (7) reliability, (8) protection of private data and (9) taxes/tariffs. GBDe is a non-governmental organization, managed by executives of 29 major enterprises in the United States, Europe and Asia, that promotes establishing global rules for electronic commerce over the Internet.

1999 Bolero Bolero backed by about 120 banks and logistics firms is trying to set up a global standard that would be accepted by governments, shippers, and banks. In doing so the plan to tackle such age old legal concepts as the bill of lading. Bolero plans to use an encrypted communication network to shuffle documents around the world, a process that's now hampered by incompatible computer systems and bureaucrats. Bolero is owned 50-50 by the TT Club , a body that (insures &) represents the world's port authorities and logistics operators; and S.W.I.F.T. - the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a bank-owned cooperative that supplies messaging services and software to 6,000 financial institutions in 175 countries. Between them, the two organizations have 12,500 members who in turn deal with nearly every company that conducts cross-border trade - the two organizations represent the most powerful players in international trade, including some of the world's biggest banks and shipping companies. Bolero went live on September 27, 1999.

1999 Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce(GBDe) Due to submit proposals for legal arrangements for electronic commerce representing the interest of industries during the first GBDe convention held on 13 September 1999 in Paris, and these will be submitted to the government of each country. The following nine themes will be covered: (1) authentication and security, (2) consumer credibility, (3) contents/business communication, (4) inter-operability of information infrastructure and governance, (5) intellectual property, (6) control, (7) reliability, (8) protection of private data and (9) taxes/tariffs. GBDe is a non-governmental organization, managed by executives of 29 major enterprises in the United States, Europe and Asia, that promotes establishing global rules for electronic commerce over the Internet.

1999 Bolero ‹http://www.boleroltd.com/› Bolero backed by about 120 banks and logistics firms is trying to set up a global standard that would be accepted by governments, shippers, and banks. In doing so the plan to tackle such age old legal concepts as the bill of lading. Bolero plans to use an encrypted communication network to shuffle documents around the world, a process that's now hampered by incompatible computer systems and bureaucrats. Bolero is owned 50-50 by the TT Club , a body that (insures &) represents the world's port authorities and logistics operators; and S.W.I.F.T. - the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a bank-owned cooperative that supplies messaging services and software to 6,000 financial institutions in 175 countries. Between them, the two organizations have 12,500 members who in turn deal with nearly every company that conducts cross-border trade - the two organizations represent the most powerful players in international trade, including some of the world's biggest banks and shipping companies. Bolero went live on September 27, 1999.

1998 Wassenaar Arrangement (signed by 33 countries in December preventing export of encryption) an unenforceable agreement in which the signatory countries agreed to restrict the export of: 64-bit and higher cryptography in mass-market software and hardware, and; 56-bit and higher cryptography in general encryption products.

1993 Organization for Harmonization of African Business Law (Ohada) Treaty, Mauritius (a Francophone African initiative open to any member of the OAU - Organization of African Unity) Ohada Website resource is in French

1925 Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs (revised at London 1934 and The Hague 1960, supplemented by the Additional Act of Monaco 1961, the Complementary Act of Stockholm 1967 and the Protocol of Geneva 1975, and amended in 1979)

1891 Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods, 1891. (revised at Washington 1911, The Hague 1925, London 1934 and Lisbon 1958, and supplemented by the Additional Act of Stockholm 1967)

started @The University of Tromsø, Norway, 1993
hosted by The University of Oslo, Norway, since 1998
in fellowship with The Institute of International Commercial Law,Pace University, White Plains, New York, U.S.A.

SiSU, developed using
Ruby
on
Debian/Gnu/Linux
software infrastructure,
with the usual GPL (or OSS) suspects.
Better - "performance, reliability, scalability, security & total cost of ownership"
[not to mention flexibility & choice] use of and adherence to open standards (where practical and fair) and it is software libré.
Get With the Future
Way Better!